Newbie with Power Mac G5.

[Paul Nasrat]

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 09:57 +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
> On 3. feb 2006, at 15.26, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 15:23 +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
> >> Sorry, I am a little confused. The .iso files are labeled "fc4-
> >> pegasos-disc..." Can they be installed on my configuration
> >> successfully?
> >
> > They're updated FC4 install images. They should work on anything other
> > than the new dual-core Power Macs, I believe.
> >
> > --  
> > dwmw2
> 
> OK, time to make a status report:
> 
> 1) The install seemed to go without a hitch.
> 2) I have 2 internal SATA drives and Fedora Core 4 Pegasos (PPC) is  
> installed on #1.
> 3) First boot went fine in the beginning:
> 	a) When it was time to include extra install CDs, the system could  
> not find a CD-ROM.

This functionality isn't really supported in Fedora - so don't panic.
What "extra" cd were you trying? Just use yum post install.

> 	b) Created user account and password.
> 	c) At prompt screen for loging into the system, I got a blinking  
> cursor, but the mouse and keyboard were frozen.

Do these work in runlevel 3?  Can you also yum update to current errata
and see if that improves (just to give us a base to test from).

> 		I had to do a hard shutdown as the keyboard was frozen.
> 	d) I still seem to have fan and thermal control problems.

> 4) Tried to boot into OS X at restart, but Fedora didn't setup  
> OpenFirmware properly and I couldn't boot into OS X. I had to restart  
> with the option key pressed down to call up the OF graphical  
> interface for choosing which drive to boot from.

I'm pretty sure this is a yaboot ofpath bug - I've an open bug for that
can you let me know your partition layout of both disks, and your
yaboot.conf, and a tarball of /proc/device-tree.

I'm hoping to get my hands on a setup with two drives shortly to fix
this.  If you have time I can run a few script modifications past you.

> Where do I go from here? Do I give up on my FC4 install and try a  
> Rawhide install or do I try to fix the issues with Fedora Core 4?

Stick with FC 4 for now, lets get any outstanding issues that probably
still occur in FC 5 (the yaboot thing, etc) fixed.  Then we can see if
the later kernel, etc fix things.  Then we can move to FC5 T3 when
releaseed to make sure we've polished everything for that.

Paul